Originally Posted By Stanton
I had a JD bender. Unless you plan to do a lot of stuff its not a good investment. Its one thing to say a certain size die will do you but they make about a dozen different radiuses in each size !! As a manually operated unit it needs a large footprint. You're a handy guy Andy, there are a lot of good plans on the net to build a hydraulic bender using commercially available dies. They have a smaller footprint. With the JD the hydraulics are an option and not a cheap one. I didn't get enough use out of it so I sold it.


I also looked at these, and decided I couldn't justify the cost or space. I bought one of the compact ones from Speedway Motors (PN91084112). It is more limited in function, but I used it to put some bends in my roll bar. Eastwood (12485) and a few other vendors have a similar model.

On the JD Benders, SWAG Offroad has a pretty neat looking mount that is not too expensive and allows the use of a Harbor Freight ram that is also pretty cheap....

Last edited by Bill_T; 09/28/17 01:54 AM.

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